66% of staff slate bureaucratic Hefce
Two-thirds of university and college staff feel the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England is bureaucratic and a third feel it is inflexible and lacks transparency. The fourth Mori survey,...
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Pair to fund scholarship
Two Strathclyde University professors have put their money where their mouths are to fund a scholarship for a master of international management course being launched in autumn. Neil Hood (pictured...
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Use RDAs to fill gap, say Lords
Vulnerable research departments in universities should be supported by regional development agencies if they do not receive funding under the research assessment exercise, the House of Lords...
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Tough market for jobs ahead
Graduates will have to work harder and be prepared to be more flexible if they are to find career jobs this year, employers have warned. A 3.4 per cent drop in graduate vacancies, coupled with...
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Current energy policy is to 'run fast to stand still'
Researchers are questioning whether the winds of change are blowing hard enough to meet the UK's energy needs, despite trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt's commitment to wind power. Ms...
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Call for single science body
The science research councils should be dissolved and replaced with a national science foundation, leading science figures said this week. The Royal Society of Chemistry, whose chief executive writes...
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Analysis: Which university has the fattest wallet?
How has the fall in the value of the stock market since The THES' first analysis of university wealth in 2001 affected the financial health of UK institutions? Claire Sanders and Alison Goddard...
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Keele staff face further cuts
Keele University shocked staff last week by announcing a new wave of job losses before its present round of cutbacks has been completed. About 24 academic posts are expected to go in the latest...
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Insecurity tops the list of job woes
University staff are more stressed than people in comparable jobs, such as those in the police force or county councils, according to new research. Job insecurity heads the list of troubles, followed...
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TV bid to provoke science debate
Prime-time television viewers in the UK could soon be treated to an advert promoting academic journals after the success of a 30-second commercial in the US. It was aired during big-audience shows to...
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Students admit sex assaults
A quarter of students have been bullied into having sex and a third have physically assaulted their partner, researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University believe. In a survey of 250 students at GCU,...
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£16m ignites motorsports
A motorsports academy may get off the starting grid with a share of £16 million from the government. The cash, announced by trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt, has been given in response to...
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Quality audit queries OU-validated degrees
The standards of degree courses offered by more than 100 institutions validated by the Open University have been called into question by the Quality Assurance Agency. After an audit of one of the OU'...
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Whistleblowers: Oxford Brookes offers £100K to avoid court
Almost 40 students seeking about £1 million compensation after Oxford Brookes University failed to gain professional accreditation for their osteopathy degree course have been offered ex gratia...
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S African v-c warns UK over divisions
The British government risks trampling on academic freedoms and university autonomy as it attempts to reform higher education, a visiting South African vice-chancellor has warned. Barney Pityana,...